# What is the most pain you have ever been in?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 23, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-pain-you-have-ever-been-in/679553 "2014-01-23T20:10:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-pain-you-have-ever-been-in/679553/141 "2014-01-31T23:46:26Z")

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OK, I’m going to add another…constipation. Yes, seriously.

This week, an apparent side effect of a prescription pain killer was to block up my insides as though I’d eaten a couple pounds of wet cement. When my colon began spasming, I inadvertently made the situation worse by taking more painkillers of the same type. Sorry, wrong kind of pain, shouldn’t have done that. I was also taking OTC laxative on a Doctor’s recommendation, but it didn’t make a difference or I didn’t start it soon enough, not sure which.

After 48 hours of increasing discomfort and thinking it would go away on its own, I spent most of an intensely miserable night in a hospital ER having very unpleasant things done to me, which at least helped ameliorate the condition to the point where I could go home and pass out for a few hours. Couple days later and I still feel fairly washed out. In some ways this was every bit the ordeal that the kidney stones I had a couple weeks ago were, except that no one seems to take you very sympathetically if “All you’ve got is constipation”.

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